Meena Bazar

Meena Bazar

Meena Bazar is a bazaar located in Karimabad, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

The Meena Bazaar building may have grown old from the outside and crammed from the inside, but the some women working and running their businesses at the bazaar for decades now, their hair greyed and foreheads creased, still have memories of its inception afresh in their minds. Made in early 1970s, Meena Bazaar was the first of its kind in Pakistan as it was specifically made for women entrepreneurs. This exclusive bazaar has gifted its dwellers with a lot of good and bad memories over the years.

The Meena Bazaar building may have grown old from the outside and crammed from the inside, but the women working and running their businesses at the bazaar for decades now, their hair greyed and foreheads creased, still have the memories of its inception afresh in their minds. Made by a businessman, Piarai Mian, with an aim to help make destitute women self-reliant, Meena Bazaar is equally popular among married, divorced and widowed women as well as unmarried young girls who want to earn an income without inviting the protest of their relatives.

See also

* Karimabad
* Bazaar
* Meena Bazaar


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